Excerpt from Boris Godounov: A Musical Drama in Three Acts The first scene of this act is laid at an inn on the frontier of Lithuania. The Innkeeper is singing to herself, when she is startled by the sound of voices from without. Varlaam and Missail, in hermit garb, enter, followed by the False Dimitri, dressed as a peasant, and under the name of Gregory. The three have escaped from their Monastery and are anxious to reach Lithuania. The innkeeper serves them with wine and tells Gregory by what way he can get into ...
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Excerpt from Boris Godounov: A Musical Drama in Three Acts The first scene of this act is laid at an inn on the frontier of Lithuania. The Innkeeper is singing to herself, when she is startled by the sound of voices from without. Varlaam and Missail, in hermit garb, enter, followed by the False Dimitri, dressed as a peasant, and under the name of Gregory. The three have escaped from their Monastery and are anxious to reach Lithuania. The innkeeper serves them with wine and tells Gregory by what way he can get into Lithuania, advising him to be cautious, as soldiers are on the lookout for a fugitive and all travellers are being held up. Varlaam grows drowsy with the wine and falls into a drunken sleep, singing snatches of song. An officer and soldiers enter and, suspecting that Var laam may be the escaped person they are in search of, the officer awakes him and shows him a warrant of arrest, but as Varlaam cannot read, he gives it to Gregory, who, while reading the warrant, inserts in the description a similarity between the fugitive and Varlaam. At this Varlaam becomes incensed, and taking the warrant proceeds to spell his way through it, read ing from it a description that tallies very closely with Gregory. At the end he accuses Gregory of being the person sought, at which the Monk bolts from the room and makes his escape, followed by the soldiers in pursuit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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